BASSOONISTS IN PICTURES


1. Three bassoonists in heaven: Kim Walker, Sol Schoenbach, and Roger Birnstingl in a cane storage area in Southern France

2. Kim Walker, Principal Bassoon of the Turin (Italy) Radio Orchestra on vacation.

3. IDRS Honorary Member, Viennese bassoonist Dr. Karl Ohlberger at Toulon with Maurice Allard in the background.

4. A speciel cake prepared for the 70th birthday of Karl Ohlberger. It contains an open book with a replica of a bassoon on one leaf and the beginning of the 3rd movement of the Mozart concerto on the other.

5. Schoenbach and his pupil Richard Ranti, second place winner, at Toulon.

6. A rare sight: Schoenbach playing on a Buffet "bassoon" at Toulon.

7. The judges of the Toulon Concours dancing a gavotte together!! (L to R Delmotte, Birnstingl, Schoenbach, Ohlberger, Bondon, Allard, and Yamahata.)


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